WAGNER Das Rheingold Opera 3 CD Booklet Set SOLTI Vienna Philharmonic

Description: Item: CD - Classical / OperaBand/Artist(s)/Composer/Conductor: Richard Wagner (Composer)Sir Georg Holt (Conductor)Vienna Philharmonic (Performers)Title: Das RheingoldPart One of The Ring of the Nibelung 3 Cd Set with 152 Page BookletReleased: 1984London RecordsWest German ImportI believe this is from Solti's 1958 performance his first complete opera recording#414 101-2Condition: Does not look played - Fantastic shape - Will Play FineStart grabbing these up in case they shut down the internet of things Please review the pictures and grade the item for yourself - no stock photos here. What you see is what you will be receiving.Don't let someone else buy this and let this one slip by music enthusiasts......Plenty of listings & auctions to be listed. Proceeds will be heading to one of our local effective charities and help pay for my daughter's college books and other costly things.... All who bid you have my deepest thanks to help further her indoctrination um errr, education 😁 Note: You are buying, bidding or making an offer on the item listed in the title of this listing and description above. If multiple cards/items are shown - they are in separate listings. Scans/Photos of the actual items are shown.You can check vintage music stores, conventions and flea markets. Risk losing an auction in the finals seconds, if another one is ever available..ORIf you really want it, I'll send it from my collection to yours for the price listedSolti by Allan Warren, 1975Sir Georg Solti, KBE (/ˈdʒɔːrdʒ ˈʃɒlti/;[1] Hungarian: [ˈʃolti]; born György Stern; 21 October 1912 – 5 September 1997)[2] was a Hungarian-born British orchestral and operatic conductor, best known for his appearances with opera companies in Munich, Frankfurt and London, and as a long-serving music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Born in Budapest, he studied there with Béla Bartók, Leó Weiner and Ernő Dohnányi. In the 1930s, he was a répétiteur at the Hungarian State Opera and worked at the Salzburg Festival for Arturo Toscanini. His career was interrupted by the rise of the Nazis' influence on Hungarian politics and, being of Jewish background, he fled the increasingly harsh Hungarian anti-Jewish laws in 1938. After conducting a season of Russian ballet in London at the Royal Opera House he found refuge in Switzerland, where he remained during the Second World War. Prohibited from conducting there, he earned a living as a pianist.In the recording studios Solti's career took off after 1956, when John Culshaw was put in charge of Decca's classical recording programme. Culshaw believed Solti to be "the great Wagner conductor of our time",[46] and was determined to record the four operas of Der Ring des Nibelungen with Solti and the finest Wagner singers available.[47] The cast Culshaw assembled for the cycle included Kirsten Flagstad, Hans Hotter, Birgit Nilsson and Wolfgang Windgassen.[48] Apart from Arabella in 1957, in which he substituted when Karl Böhm withdrew, Solti had made no complete recording of an opera until the sessions for Das Rheingold, the first of the Ring tetralogy, in September and October 1958.[28] In their respective memoirs Culshaw and Solti told how Walter Legge of Decca's rival EMI predicted that Das Rheingold would be a commercial disaster ("'Very nice,' he said, 'Very interesting. But of course you won't sell any.'")[49][n 7] The success of the recording took the record industry by surprise. It featured for weeks in the Billboard charts, the sole classical album alongside best sellers by Elvis Presley and Pat Boone, and brought Solti's name to international prominence.[51] He appeared with leading orchestras in New York, Vienna and Los Angeles, and at Covent Garden he conducted Der Rosenkavalier and Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream.Das RheingoldMusic drama by Richard WagnerAlberich's seizure of the Rhine gold, as depicted in Scene 1 of the 1876 productionLibrettistRichard WagnerLanguageGermanBased onNordic and German legendsPremiere22 September 1869 National Theatre MunichDas Rheingold (pronunciation (help·info); The Rhinegold), WWV 86A, is the first of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, (English: The Ring of the Nibelung). It was performed, as a single opera, at the National Theatre Munich on 22 September 1869, and received its first performance as part of the Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, on 13 August 1876.Wagner wrote the Ring librettos in reverse order, so that Das Rheingold was the last of the texts to be written; it was, however, the first to be set to music. The score was completed in 1854, but Wagner was unwilling to sanction its performance until the whole cycle was complete; he worked intermittently on this music until 1874. The 1869 Munich premiere of Das Rheingold was staged, much against Wagner's wishes, on the orders of his patron, King Ludwig II of Bavaria. Following its 1876 Bayreuth premiere, the Ring cycle was introduced into the worldwide repertory, with performances in all the main opera houses, in which it has remained a regular and popular fixture.In his 1851 essay Opera and Drama, Wagner had set out new principles as to how music dramas should be constructed, under which the conventional forms of opera (arias, ensembles, choruses) were rejected. Rather than providing word-settings, the music would interpret the text emotionally, reflecting the feelings and moods behind the work, by using a system of recurring leitmotifs to represent people, ideas and situations. Das Rheingold was Wagner's first work that adopted these principles, and his most rigid adherence to them, despite a few deviations – the Rhinemaidens frequently sing in ensemble.As the "preliminary evening" within the cycle, Das Rheingold gives the background to the events that drive the main dramas of the cycle. It recounts Alberich's theft of the Rhine gold after his renunciation of love; his fashioning of the all-powerful ring from the gold and his enslavement of the Nibelungs; Wotan's seizure of the gold and the ring, to pay his debt to the giants who have built his fortress Valhalla; Alberich's curse on the ring and its possessors; Erda's warning to Wotan to forsake the ring; the early manifestation of the curse's power after Wotan yields the ring to the giants; and the gods' uneasy entry into Valhalla, under the shadow of their impending doom. Looking for something to enhance your collection? Trying to find that gift for a family member or close friend? I have over 15,000 listings currently on eBay.Check back in & Save me as a favorite seller!All reasonable offers considered - Click on the 'make an offer' button and feel free to negotiateI'll always be listing new Items weekly:Cards, books, comics, mags, music, older and newer releases, etc... 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